Challenger’s rap on Cantwell: She’s unmarried

A 2012 challenger to Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., has a new rap on the two-term Democratic incumbent: She’s unmarried.

State Sen. Michael Baumgartner took out after Cantwell for signing a letter critical of an Obama administration decision overruling the Food and Drug Administration on Plan B, the “morning after” birth control pill.

The administration decided not to make Plan B available over the counter at drug stores to patients under the age of 16.

In a letter to supporters, Baumgartner argued that Cantwell lacks qualification to be heard on the issue in that she is unmarried and has voted to “undermine the role of parents in child rearing.”

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“Cantwell is so extreme that she doesn’t see anything wrong with 11-year old girls getting Plan B without prescription,” Baumbartner wrote. A political opponent got hold of his letter, first reported in the Seattle Times, available to SeattlePI.com.